Board Directors Beware: U.S. Antitrust Agencies Ramp Up Enforcement of Interlocking Directorates

The Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ) has indicated a recent interest in enforcing Section 8 of the Clayton Act, which prohibits individuals from serving on boards of competing corporations, known as “interlocking directorates.” (See 15 U.S.C. § 19.) Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter has called Section 8 an “important but underenforced” antitrust law. After DOJ announced …

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